To get a better understanding of the GBIF data, we examined the data at various taxonomic levels. By sorting the data by the number of occurrences, we found out that sea slugs (order: Nudibranchia) made up 40% of the GBIF observations. Human observations usually tend to photograph animals.
To find out how eDNA complements GBIF data, we looked at whether or not there was a eDNA match for each GBIF taxa. While eDNA and GBIF have a high match rate at the higher taxonomic levels (phylum, class, order), there is low match rate at lower taxonomic levels (genus and species).
| Taxon |
GBIF Occurences |
NCBI Match |
eDNA Match |
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Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Saxifragales
GBIF
Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Saxifragales
GBIF ID: 7219248
NCBI
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3 |
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|
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Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Solanales
GBIF
Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Solanales
GBIF ID: 1176
NCBI
Eukaryota, Viridiplantae, Streptophyta, --, Solanales
NCBI ID: 4069,
CALeDNA page
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1 |
|
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Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales
GBIF
Plantae, Tracheophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales
GBIF ID: 640
NCBI
Eukaryota, Viridiplantae, Streptophyta, --, Pinales
NCBI ID: 1446380,
CALeDNA page
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1 |
|
|
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Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Polypodiopsida, Equisetales
GBIF
Plantae, Tracheophyta, Equisetopsida, Equisetales
GBIF ID: 954
NCBI
Eukaryota, Viridiplantae, Streptophyta, Polypodiopsida, Equisetales
NCBI ID: 3255,
CALeDNA page
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2 |
|
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Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Polypodiopsida, Polypodiales
GBIF
Plantae, Tracheophyta, Polypodiopsida, Polypodiales
GBIF ID: 392
NCBI
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1 |
|
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Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Protozoa, Choanozoa, Choanoflagellatea, Craspedida
GBIF
Fungi, Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes, Mycosphaerellales
GBIF ID: 9783671
NCBI
Eukaryota, --, --, --, Choanoflagellida
NCBI ID: 1924738,
CALeDNA page
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1 |
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